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Exploring Birmingham's Black Box Theatre

Original comedy, podcasts, poetry, fiction and more on BBC Upload with Nina Das Gupta. Upload your work for a chance to get on the BBC.

Original comedy, podcasts, poetry, fiction and more on BBC Upload with Nina Das Gupta, including:

• Checking out the UK's biggest poetry festival, Ledbury, which started as an idea between enthusiasts nearly 30 years ago, and this weekend brings hundreds of writers - and Dinnerladies' Maxine Pique - to Herefordshire!

• An exclusive behind the scenes tour, at the new pioneering performance space at the heart of Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter: Black Box Theatre.

• The intercontinental comedy collaboration, connecting Stoke-on-Trent to Germany - that might have just created your next favourite sitcom, created by Grant Foxon.

• Previewing next week's Shrewsbury International Comedy Festival, that's taking over the town with some of the country's hottest comics.

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2 hours

Last on

Sat 6 Jul 202418:00
BBC Radio Stoke, BBC Radio Shropshire, BBC Hereford & Worcester, BBC CWR & BBC Radio WM

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Music Played

  • Amy Winehouse

    Tears Dry On Their Own

    • (CD Single).
    • ISLAND.
    • 01.

  • Harry Styles

    Late Night Talking

    • Columbia.

  • Taylor Swift

    Anti-Hero

    • TS/Republic.

  • Sabrina Carpenter

    Espresso

    • Island Records.

  • Backstreet Boys

    As Long As You Love Me

    • A Song For You.
    • Sony Music UK.
    • 01.

  • Purple Disco Machine & Benjamin Ingrosso

    Honey Boy (feat. Nile Rodgers & Shenseea)

    • Sony Music Entertainment.

  • Teddy Swims

    The Door

    • Atlantic.

  • Shawn Mendes

    If I Can't Have You

    • If I Can't Have You.
    • ISLAND.
    • 01.

  • Perrie

    Forget About Us

    • Columbia.

  • Snow Patrol

    The Beginning

    • Polydor.

  • Bradley Simpson

    Picasso

    • Insanity Records.

  • Dua Lipa

    Houdini

    • Warner Records.

  • Sheryl Crow

    All I Wanna Do

    • Number One Acoustic Rock Album.
    • POLYGRAM TV.
    • 04.

  • Jess Glynne

    All I Am

    • All I Am.
    • ATLANTIC.
    • 01.

Broadcasts

  • Thu 4 Jul 202418:00
    BBC Radio Stoke, BBC Radio Shropshire & BBC Hereford & Worcester
  • Thu 4 Jul 202419:00
    BBC CWR & BBC Radio WM
  • Sat 6 Jul 202418:00
    BBC Radio Stoke, BBC Radio Shropshire, BBC Hereford & Worcester, BBC CWR & BBC Radio WM